... nearer if necessary.
We knew the enemy were facing us across the field, When the Adjutant came to the picket line in the gray of the morning, there could be seen Federal pickets approaching two of Wise 's abandoned forts in our front, as if to take possession of them.
The forts were as near to us as they were to the Federals.
The old picket combined with the relief and made a dash for the forts;...